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Delphi murders investigation timeline: Review the case through 5 years of reporting​

See how the Delphi murders and investigation unfolded through our coverage that began the day Abby and Libby went missing.​

 

11/29/22

DELPHI, Ind. (WISH) — A special judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a redacted version of the probable cause affidavit for Richard Allen, the suspect in the Delphi murders.

Judge Frances C. Gull, a criminal administrative judge from Allen County, approved the release of a version of the probable cause submitted by prosecutors at a hearing on Nov. 22.

In the order signed Tuesday, Gull says that the prosecutors “failed to prove clear and convincing evidence that the Affidavit of Probable Cause and the Charging Informations should be excluded from public access.”

The probable cause details the evidence investigators used to justify arresting Allen on two counts of murder in the deaths of Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German. The two were killed on February 13, 2017, near the Monon High Bridge in Delphi.

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The probable cause affidavit does not say how German and Williams died, only that their deaths were ruled homicides and their clothes were found in a creek south of where their bodies were located.

Allen admitted to being on the trail near the Monon High Bridge on the day of the murders, court papers say, but he denied knowing Williams and German and “denied any involvement in their murders.”

Allen’s attorneys have said the evidence against him is “flimsy.”

 

“There’s things that will make you really interested in a case, simply more than just somebody saying, ‘Hey, we we think this person might have been involved.’ But we had a little piece of information that really made that case specifically interesting to us,” Cox said.

The information pointed Boone County investigators toward a specific person who had a specific item they were interested in.

“I’m not going to tell you about what that item was,” Cox said. “We’ve recently been in the northern part of Indiana, investigating this guy, following him around, looking for things, collecting all of the information and evidence that we would need to at least vet him as best we could with our case. He was cooperative... We were able to go down that path with him, and he articulated good reason to why that [item] may have existed.

Cox said they sent what they found to Indiana State Police, since that is the agency handling Abby and Libby’s murder case.


To be clear, Cox says their investigation into a potential link between the two cases did not include Richard Allen. When Boone County detectives were in Delphi, Allen was already in jail, where he has been since October 2022, accused in the murders of Abby and Libby.
 
Nov 1, 2022

“MEXICO, Ind. — The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that deputies were sent to Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen’s home in 2015 for a “domestic” incident.

The sheriff’s office was dispatched just after 3:30 in the morning on June 18, 2015, according to records obtained by FOX59. The sheriff said Allen was allegedly drunk and his wife took him to a Lafayette-area hospital for a medical evaluation.

Sheriff Leazenby said no law enforcement action was involved other than responding to “keep the peace.””
 

CVS, Westville prison subpoenaed in connection with Delphi murders trial​


Now, prosecutors are asking his former employer CVS and the facility where he’s been held since November to provide documents and records.

The subpoenas from the Carroll County Prosecutor were approved by the judge on Wednesday.
 

4/14/2023

Richard Allen — the man accused of killing Delphi teenagers Libby German and Abby Williams — is heading to a Department of Correction facility that will, according a judge’s order, accommodate his medical, physical and psychological needs.

Special Judge Frances C. Gall, Carroll Circuit Court signed an order Friday ordering Allen moved for safe keeping to a facility that will address his needs based on the assessments of Department of Corrections physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists.

Gall's order comes nine days after Allen's attorneys filed a motion for the defendant to be moved to the Cass County Jail, citing his deteriorating mental and physical conditions while being housed for five months in isolation in the Westville prison's segregated unity.
 
The most significant & lengthy part of tomorrow’s hearing in #Delphi will be debate about whether the judge should exclude ballistic tests that the prosecutor says links an unfired bullet at the murder scene to a gun owned by defendant Richard Allen.

Following his arrest, Richard Allen’s defense team said the science behind the state’s crime lab ballistic testing is flawed and has been “under attack in courtrooms across this country as being unreliable and lacking any scientific validity.”

Richard Allen, charged with murdering two #Delphi teens in 2017, will be back in court tomorrow for an important pre-trial hearing. Here are the key issues that will be decided.




Updated: 1:00 PM EDT June 15, 2023

DELPHI, Ind. — Defendant Richard Allen will be back in court Thursday morning for an important day of hearings in the Delphi murders case. 13News will have several reporters inside the courtroom to explain what happened and what it means.

Allen was arrested last October and charged with the murders of teenagers Abby Williams and Libby German, whose bodies were found near the Delphi Monon High Bridge in February 2017.

Here are the other key issues that might be addressed during Thursday's hearing:

Setting a trial date​

13News has learned a trial date will likely be set for sometime within the next six months, and Richard Allen’s trial could start as early as mid-fall.

This portion of the hearing is expected to last only a few minutes.

Motion to suppress ballistics evidence​

UPDATE: The judge will not be deciding on this issue during the June 15 hearing.
 

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